NEW SPECIES OF ORNITHOllYNCHUS. 131 
part having been rubbed bare by use in the former speci- 
men. 
Another individual in the Museum, although not more 
than 16.5 inches long, I am inclined to consider as of the 
same species, because it agrees with the others in all essen- 
tial respects. The hairs present the same forms, and the 
colours equally correspond. The hair of the tail is less 
matted, but it is still distinctly geniculate. This individual 
is a female, as is indicated by the absence of spurs ; and its 
juvenility is pointed out by the usual characters. 
There is another interesting specimen in the Museum, 
which was presented by Sir James Macgrigor. The length 
of this individual is 25 inches, but, being apparently some- 
what elongated in the course of stuffing, it may be stated 
at 24. The characters are in general as in the one first de- 
scribed, but the colours differ a little. The general tint of 
the upper parts is deeper, that of the under parts light- 
grey, the tips of the longer hairs being whitish, the under 
neck and spot before the eye greyish-white. The under 
surface of the tail is nearly bare. The dimensions of this 
individual are as follow : 
Beak from the frontal margin to the end, - inches. 
Breadth near the end, - - - - 1? 
Height of frontal margin, - - - - 
Length of tail, - - - - - - ^4 
Length of spm-, 
Total length, ------ 25 
In this individual, the hairs, and especially those of the 
under surface, are more decidedly curved than even in that 
first described, and the feel of the pile is in consequence 
more roue;n. It may probably be a very old individual. 
